WORST ENGLISH RAILWAY DISASTER FOR Y EARS.—A view of the wreckage after the worst train smash in the history of the London and North-Eastern Railway, which occurred at Welwyn Garden City Station shortly before midnight on June 15. An express train from King’s Cross, laden chiefly with Sunday newspapers, crashed into a Newcastle-bound express, which was standing at the station. The parcels train telescoped the rear carriages of the express, 15 persons being killed and 40 injured, many seriously.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 14
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79WORST ENGLISH RAILWAY DISASTER FOR Y EARS.—A view of the wreckage after the worst train smash in the history of the London and North-Eastern Railway, which occurred at Welwyn Garden City Station shortly before midnight on June 15. An express train from King’s Cross, laden chiefly with Sunday newspapers, crashed into a Newcastle-bound express, which was standing at the station. The parcels train telescoped the rear carriages of the express, 15 persons being killed and 40 injured, many seriously. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 14
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